Roman Literary Cultures, 2016, Vol.55, p.159-184
2016
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Elegy and Epic in Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile
- Ist Teil von
- Roman Literary Cultures, 2016, Vol.55, p.159-184
- Ort / Verlag
- Toronto: University of Toronto Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2016
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- The private concerns of elegy are conventionally opposed in Latin literature to the public and political concerns of epic. To be a lover is to exchange the proud spoils of imperial glory for the private humiliations of a slave waiting at the door of his mistress. The lover prefers to be called idle and inactive than to be praised.¹ Tibullus in his first, programmatic poem reaches back to the funerary origins of the genre and progresses from the passivity of erotic subjection to ultimateinertiain the arms of his beloved on the “bed/bier destined to burn” (arsuro … lecto,
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9781442629677, 1442629673DOI: 10.3138/9781442629684-013Titel-ID: cdi_walterdegruyter_books_10_3138_9781442629684_013
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Anthropology, Applied anthropology, Armed conflict, Armed forces, Arts, Behavioral sciences, Civil wars, Communications, Cultural anthropology, Cultural customs, Death rites, Elegies, Epics, Funerals, Funerary rituals, Government, Laments, Legislative bodies, Legislatures, Literary genres, Literature, Love poetry, Military personnel, Military science, Narrative poetry, Poetic forms, Poetry, Political science, Rites of passage, Rituals, Social sciences, Soldiers, Speech, Spoken communication, Upper houses, War, War theaters